дновесий LAWS OF THE STATE OF INDIANA PASSED AT THE Fifty-Ninth Regular Session OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, Begun on the Tenth Day of January, A. D. 1895. BY AUTHORITY. WILLIAM D. OWEN, Secretary of State. INDIANAPOLIS: WM. B. BURFORD, CONTRACTOR FOR STATE PRINTING AND BINDING. 1895. LAWS. CHAPTER I. AN ACT appropriating One Hundred Thousand Dollars to defray the expenses of the Fifty-ninth General Assembly, and declaring an emergency. [APPROVED JANUARY 17, 1895.] lative ex SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Appropriathe State of Indiana, That One Hundred Thousand Dol-tion for Legislars be, and the same is, hereby appropriated to defray the penses. expenses of the present General Assembly: Provided: That if any part of the amount thus appropriated shall remain after the expenses of the present General Assembly are paid, the amount so remaining shall revert immediately to the General Fund. mileage of SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of the Auditor of Per diem and State to audit the accounts and issue his warrant upon members. the Treasurer of State for the per diem and mileage of Senators and Representatives, as allowed by law, and also such additional allowances for any necessary traveling expenses incurred in the performance of duty, as may be provided for by joint. resolution of both Houses, upon the certificate, in the case of Senators, of the President of the Senate, and in the case of Representatives, upon the certificate of the Speaker of the House, setting forth the time served and the amount of mileage and allowance to which such Senators or Representatives may be entitled. officers. SEC. 3. That it shall be the duty of the Auditor of Per diem of State to audit the accounts and issue warrants upon the Treasurer of State for the per diem of officers of the Senate and House of Representatives and their assistants and appointees, including clerks and assistants to committees, and janitors appointed by the Doorkeeper of the House, under the rules or order of either House, upon the certificate of the presiding officer of either House, No extra payment except setting forth the amount due such officers, clerks, assistants or janitors. Where the pay of officers, clerks, assistants or other employes is now fixed by law, they shall be paid accordingly; where their pay is not fixed by law, but is limited by law, their pay shall not be above the limit. In all other cases their pay shall be fixed by either or both Houses of this General Assembly. SEC. 4. No payment of any extra compensation to by resolution. assistants or employes of this General Assembly shall be allowed out of the appropriation hereby made, unless it be done by resolution which shall have been read on three separate days before being put upon its passage and passed at least three days prior to the last day of the session. Emergency. SEC. 5. No appropriation having been made for the purposes herein set forth, it is declared that an emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this act, and therefore the same shall be in full force from and after its passage. Preamble. CHAPTER II. AN ACT to legalize the proceedings and records of the Board of Commissioners and the Auditor of Benton County, Indiana, and the acts and doings of the Viewers, Surveyor, Superintendent and Contractor in relation to the Johnson E. Childress Free Gravel Road in said county, and declaring an emergency. [APPROVED JANUARY 19, 1895.] WHEREAS, At a special session of the Board of Commissioners of Benton County, Indiana, held on the 20th day of July, 1894, a petition stating the kind of improvements prayed for and the points between which the same was asked, and signed by Johnson E. Childress and one hundred and seventy-one others, was presented to said Board praying for the construction of a gravel road, known as the Johnson E. Childress Free Gravel Road, under the provisions of an act entitled "An act concerning gravel and macadamized roads" approved April 11, 1885, and subsequent acts amendatory thereof; and the said Board of Commissioners on said day having heard the evidence, made a finding and duly entered the same of record, showing that said petition was signed by a majority of all the resident land owners of said county whose lands were within two miles of said proposed improvement |